Information Extraction

Information extraction is about retrieving structured, well-defined information from relatively unstructured or less available data sources.  Such sources include websites and blogs, databases hidden in the Deep Web, and print material such as catalogs and directories.  Rapid growth in all these areas provides increasing opportunities—and challenges—for making information both useful and available on demand.

• Have you ever been tempted to just start copying/pasting items from a web site to your database so you could do some analysis, make a report, create a catalog?  But soon quit due to slow going and unreliable results?
• Or did you manage to copy/paste many lines or tables, but then confronted problems of inconsistent spacing, fields missing or run together, and again the large and unreliable task of trying to manually sort it all out?
• Or was the information you wanted fairly well-defined on the screen, but every single item had to be requested one at a time, by typing into a form?  [Sadly, many government sites provide their "freely available" information this way.] 

These tasks can be fully or partially automated, given the right tools and knowhow.  At Aware Research, we extract the information you need, allowing you to focus on what you do best.